TY - JOUR
T1 - Activation of the brain-specific neurogranin gene in murine T-cell lymphomas by proviral insertional mutagenesis
AU - Nielsen, Anne Ahlmann
AU - Kjartansdóttir, Kristín Rós
AU - Rasmussen, Mads Heilskov
AU - Sørensen, Annette Balle
AU - Wang, Bruce
AU - Wabl, Matthias
AU - Pedersen, Finn Skou
N1 - AAN and KRK share first-authorship
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Neurogranin (Nrgn) is a highly expressed brain-specific protein, which sequesters calmodulin at low Ca(2+)-levels. We report here on retroviral activation of the Nrgn gene in tumors induced by the T-cell lymphomagenic SL3-3 murine leukemia virus. We have performed a systematic expression analysis of Nrgn in various mouse tissues and SL3-3 induced T-cell tumors. This demonstrated that insertional activation of Nrgn increased RNA and protein expression levels to that observed in brain. Furthermore, elevated Nrgn expression was also observed in some T-cell tumors with no detected provirus integrations into this genomic region. The presented data demonstrate that Nrgn can be produced at high levels outside the brain, and suggest a novel oncogenic role in T-cell lymphomas in mice.
AB - Neurogranin (Nrgn) is a highly expressed brain-specific protein, which sequesters calmodulin at low Ca(2+)-levels. We report here on retroviral activation of the Nrgn gene in tumors induced by the T-cell lymphomagenic SL3-3 murine leukemia virus. We have performed a systematic expression analysis of Nrgn in various mouse tissues and SL3-3 induced T-cell tumors. This demonstrated that insertional activation of Nrgn increased RNA and protein expression levels to that observed in brain. Furthermore, elevated Nrgn expression was also observed in some T-cell tumors with no detected provirus integrations into this genomic region. The presented data demonstrate that Nrgn can be produced at high levels outside the brain, and suggest a novel oncogenic role in T-cell lymphomas in mice.
U2 - 10.1016/j.gene.2009.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.gene.2009.04.003
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 19376211
SN - 1879-0038
SP - 55
EP - 62
JO - Gene
JF - Gene
ER -